Chapter Summaries

After Yun Feiyang killed Jose’s S-Class Mage, Makarov stopped Jose from attacking, while Yun Feiyang warned that their next clash would be a Guild war. The following morning, Yun Feiyang revealed that he wielded Wind God Slayer Magic before beginning the final match against Jura.

• Yun Feiyang urged Makarov to kill Jose, but Makarov warned Jose against breaking their Life and Death Contract and let him leave.
• Makarov admonished Yun Feiyang for his recklessness, while Goldman reminded him that Yun Feiyang was only fourteen.
• Yun Feiyang predicted that Jose would eventually start a Guild war, and Makarov imagined how he would react if someone harmed a Fairy Tail member.
• At the arena the next morning, Yun Feiyang told Jura and the crowd that he was a Wind God Slayer mage, shocking the spectators.
• Jura launched Iron Rock Pillar and sent stone pillars at Yun Feiyang, who dodged them as both mages prepared to fight seriously.

Yun Feiyang defeated Jura in the tournament after breaking through Jura’s strongest defense with a fused sword technique. Fairy Tail celebrated as Yun Feiyang was crowned Number One of the New Generation.

• Yun Feiyang and Jura fought for hours, with Yun Feiyang attacking from the air and Jura defending with earth Magic.
• Yun Feiyang lifted Jura off the ground with Gentle Breeze Always With You, but Jura used Overlord Thousand Jin Drop to return to the earth.
• Yun Feiyang struck Jura’s Rock Mountain with Mumei Shinpū-ryū’s White Tiger technique, but Jura’s strongest defensive Magic withstood it.
• Yun Feiyang formed a stone sword and used Divine Wind God Slayer Sword: Secret Technique: Azure Dragon to destroy the Rock Giant and expose Jura.
• Yun Feiyang dispersed the Azure Dragon before it could strike Jura, and Jura conceded the match.
• The tournament announced Yun Feiyang as Number One of the New Generation, and Makarov celebrated Fairy Tail’s victory.

Makarov announced that Yun Feiyang had won the title of Number One of the New Generation, prompting Fairy Tail members to challenge him until he fled to his Villa. Erza asked Yun Feiyang to teach her the next stage of swordsmanship, and he tried to make her understand boundaries between men and women before they left.

• Makarov told Fairy Tail that Yun Feiyang had defeated Arno and Jura to win the Number One of the New Generation competition.
• Natsu realized that defeating Yun Feiyang could make him the new number one, and the Guild members rushed to challenge Yun Feiyang.
• Yun Feiyang escaped to his Villa and had Fried place a Rune Barrier around it to keep the challengers out.
• Erza asked Yun Feiyang to teach her the next stage of swordsmanship, and he agreed to take her outside the city the following morning.
• Erza woke Yun Feiyang before dawn and offered to let him see her naked, so he lectured her about maintaining boundaries between men and women.

Yun Feiyang trained Erza in swordsmanship, demonstrating how to cut through rock and a waterfall and setting increasingly difficult goals for her. At the Guild’s year-end S-Class Mage examination announcement, Yun Feiyang was the sole nominee, prompting Erza and the others to vow to train harder.

• Yun Feiyang had Erza practice swinging her sword without touching a rock and showed her how Sword Qi could split it.
• Yun Feiyang took Erza to a waterfall, demonstrated cutting through it, and explained that she would need to train beneath the water and eventually use a Heavy Sword.
• Erza offered to sleep with Yun Feiyang if it was necessary for her training, and he left her to practice alone.
• Makarov announced Yun Feiyang as the only nominee for the S-Class Mage examination, and Yun Feiyang boasted that he would soon look down on everyone from the second floor.
• Makarov warned the Guild that S-Class missions were deadly, and Erza and other members vowed to train harder while the Guild descended into chaos.

Yun Feiyang accepted an S-Class mission in the Royal Capital and traveled to Crocus, where he encountered a scammer, ate his way through a ramen shop, and recognized the old man when he returned. He chased the fleeing scammer as the ramen shop owner realized Yun Feiyang had not paid.

• Makarov gave Yun Feiyang a mission order requiring him to defeat someone in the Royal Capital, and Yun Feiyang accepted it.
• Yun Feiyang said goodbye to his guildmates, warned Erza and Mira not to fight at home, and left for Crocus.
• In Crocus, Yun Feiyang paid an old man 20,000 J after the man staged an accident and demanded compensation.
• Yun Feiyang found a ramen shop in the West District and ate all the owner's ramen before promising to return.
• The old man entered the ramen shop, recognized Yun Feiyang, and tried to flee, so Yun Feiyang chased him while the owner called for someone to catch Yun Feiyang for eating without paying.

Yun Feiyang met Frank Chad, the mage who had posted a mission, and accepted the Holy Sword of Honor as payment. When Frank revealed that the mission involved a plot to kill the King by the captain of the Cherry Blossom Knights, Yun Feiyang tried to leave, but Frank clung to him and refused to let go.

• Yun Feiyang followed the old man to a dilapidated house, where the man transformed and introduced himself as Frank Chad, the mission’s client.
• Frank admitted he could not pay the seven-million-J reward and offered Yun Feiyang a golden Magic Weapon instead.
• Frank explained that the sword was the Holy Sword of Honor, one of eight Holy Swords forged by the Knight Temple, and Yun Feiyang accepted it as payment.
• Frank revealed that he suspected the captain of the Cherry Blossom Knights was plotting to kill the King.
• Yun Feiyang tried to leave rather than get involved in the Royal Family’s affairs, but Frank clung to him and begged him to help.

Yun Feiyang agreed to help Frank confront the captain of the Cherry Blossom Knights after learning the mission was tied to a long-buried massacre. Frank revealed that Bell had discovered the Kuro Town Massacre was ordered by the King, leaving Yun Feiyang facing a grave royal secret.

• Frank forced Yun Feiyang to continue his S-Class assessment mission, and Yun Feiyang learned he would have to wait a year if he withdrew.
• Yun Feiyang agreed to defeat the Cherry Blossom Knights' captain after Frank explained that the captain was his adopted son, Bell Kale.
• Frank recounted how Weber Kale, Bell's father, had ordered the Kuro Town Massacre twenty years earlier, killing half the town's population.
• Frank explained that he had never believed Weber committed the massacre and that Bell had also spent years seeking the truth.
• Frank told Yun Feiyang that Bell had recently uncovered that the massacre was ordered by the King, not Weber.

Frank asked Yun Feiyang to protect the king and stop Bell from taking revenge, then began teaching him Sacred Sword Magic. The chapter ended with Frank demonstrating the first technique, which transformed the Sword of Glory into a giant blade dozens of meters long.

• Frank explained that he wanted to stop Bell from killing the king and protect Bell from throwing away his life, and asked Yun Feiyang to enter the Royal Palace and stop him.
• Frank suspected Bell would strike during the annual assembly in half a month and gave Yun Feiyang one week to learn Sacred Sword Magic.
• Frank took Yun Feiyang to the wilderness and explained that Sacred Sword Magic was advanced Light Magic with three techniques that became Forbidden Magic when used with a Holy Sword.
• Frank told Yun Feiyang he was inheriting his legacy and warned him not to commit evil deeds or sully Glory; Yun Feiyang swore to remember the warning.
• Frank demonstrated the first technique, Sacred Sword, and the Sword of Glory expanded into a blade dozens of meters long.

Yun Feiyang learned the Sacred Sword and attempted Frank’s Sword of Judgment, a Forbidden Magic capable of destroying a city. He struggled with its final explosive step, then mastered it and stunned Frank.

• Frank demonstrated his power with an energy greatsword and began teaching Yun Feiyang to convert Magic Power into the Light Attribute.
• Yun Feiyang quickly formed light and mastered the Sacred Sword, expanding and shrinking it at will.
• Frank demonstrated the Sword of Judgment, creating a forest of blades that exploded and left a massive crater.
• Yun Feiyang summoned blades on a larger scale but initially failed to make them explode with full force.
• Yun Feiyang figured out the missing step and unleashed the Sword of Verdict, producing a massive mushroom cloud that shattered Frank’s confidence.

Yun Feiyang learned and improved Sacred Sword Magic as Frank demonstrated its final move, Sacred Knight. After Frank explained how Knights summoned incarnations through their beliefs, Yun Feiyang summoned a radiant Knight riding a Pegasus, leaving Frank stunned by the different result.

• Yun Feiyang created a wide-area Holy Sword attack called the Sword of Verdict, adding a fourth move to Sacred Sword Magic.
• Frank demonstrated Sacred Knight by summoning a huge Pegasus, then fainted from exhaustion after Yun Feiyang mocked his way of using it.
• Frank woke after about an hour and explained that each Knight summoned a different incarnation through their beliefs.
• Yun Feiyang performed the invocation and summoned a majestic Knight riding a Pegasus, surprising Frank.

After summoning the Sacred Knight, Yun Feiyang convinced Frank and Arcadius of his extraordinary power and arranged to enter the Royal Palace as an apprentice Knight. Arcadius brought him into the palace in Cherry Blossom Knights armor, where Yun Feiyang tried to keep his new attendant from calling him the God of Knights.

• Frank mistook Yun Feiyang’s Sacred Knight for the God of Knights, declared himself Yun Feiyang’s son, and joined him for a ramen feast after Yun Feiyang paid Old Bob for the meal.
• Frank arranged for Yun Feiyang to enter the Royal Palace in three days and introduced him to Arcadius, captain of the Cherry Blossom Knights.
• Arcadius challenged Yun Feiyang’s claims until Yun Feiyang summoned the Sacred Knight, which made Arcadius kneel and pledge himself as Yun Feiyang’s attendant.
• The next day, Arcadius brought Yun Feiyang Cherry Blossom Knights armor and led him into the Royal Palace, while Yun Feiyang told him not to call him the God of Knights there.

Arcadius brought Feiyang Yun to the Palace of Athena, where Princess Jade questioned why he had been assigned as her personal guard. Jade took an interest in Feiyang Yun’s blunt views on magic and freedom, then ordered him to teach her magic.

• Arcadius introduced squire Feiyang Yun to Princess Jade as her new personal guard.
• Jade asked Feiyang Yun for advice about learning magic, and he told her it could make her stronger and help relieve the boredom of palace life.
• After Arcadius and the attendants withdrew, Feiyang Yun spoke casually with Jade and challenged her to explain why he should fear her status as a princess.
• Jade asked whether she could learn magic, and Feiyang Yun said she could but refused to teach her.
• Jade declared that, as a princess, she commanded Feiyang Yun to teach her magic.

Yun Feiyang taught Princess Jade to sense Magic Microparticles, and she discovered that a key she carried let her summon the Celestial Spirit Nicola. After slipping away from Jade and King Toma, Yun Feiyang met General Bell, who warned him not to interfere in his affairs.

• Yun Feiyang urged Princess Jade to meditate while he ate, and she successfully sensed Magic Microparticles.
• Princess Jade revealed her Silver Key and summoned the Celestial Spirit of Canis Minor, Nicola, with Yun Feiyang explaining that she needed to form a Spirit Contract.
• King Toma visited Jade and remarked on her appetite, so she blamed it on the energy she used learning Spirit Magic while Yun Feiyang slipped away.
• Yun Feiyang entered Arcadius's front hall and met Bell Kale, commander of the Cherry Blossom Knights.
• Bell recognized the Sword of Glory at Yun Feiyang's waist and warned him not to involve himself in matters that did not concern him.

Yun Feiyang tried to dissuade Bell from avenging his father by killing King Toma, but Bell left without abandoning his plan. When Bell seized the King and ministers early during the annual gathering, Jade and Yun Feiyang turned to the City Guard as their best hope of rescue.

• Yun Feiyang confronted Bell and revealed that he intended to expose the truth about his father before killing King Toma, accepting that he would die for it.
• Bell learned that Yun Feiyang had been told to preserve his life, bowed to him, and asked him to look after Arcadius before leaving.
• Arcadius confirmed that Bell planned to act during the annual gathering and said that Teacher was already making preparations.
• Three days later, Yun Feiyang and Jade prepared to attend the annual gathering, but Arcadius arrived to report that Bell had acted early and taken control of the King and ministers.
• Jade tried to rush to her father's aid, but Yun Feiyang stopped her and suggested that the City Guard could rescue the King; Jade said her uncle, Prince William, commanded it.

Bell confronted King Toma over the Kuro Town massacre, and King Toma admitted that he had ordered it and framed Weber. Bell moved to kill the King, but Yun Feiyang intervened and stopped the Cherry Blossom Knights’ attack.

• Bell killed a minister who defended King Toma and accused the King of ordering the Kuro Town massacre and blaming Weber.
• King Toma admitted that he had ordered the massacre and that Weber had carried out his command.
• Bell declared his father innocent and advanced on King Toma, while the ministers tried to shield the King.
• King Toma ordered the ministers aside and accepted death as atonement, but Yun Feiyang arrived and kicked Bell away before his sword could strike.
• Bell ordered the Cherry Blossom Knights to kill King Toma, and Yun Feiyang used Wind Release: Great Breakthrough to blow them away.

Yun Feiyang defended King Toma from Bell and the Cherry Blossom Knights, turning the palace battle into an opportunity to sell protection to the king and his ministers. After Yun Feiyang defeated the Knights, a traitorous minister took King Toma hostage, leaving Yun Feiyang unable to act freely.

• Yun Feiyang blew King Toma and the ministers into the palace, then kept the Cherry Blossom Knights from reaching them.
• Yun Feiyang learned that Jade had gone to get reinforcements and convinced King Toma and the ministers to pay him for protection.
• Bell led the Cherry Blossom Knights in a battle formation, but Yun Feiyang broke their barrier with the Sacred Sword and defeated them.
• Bell revealed that he had made other preparations, and the Minister of Internal Affairs held a dagger to King Toma's throat.

Yun Feiyang saved King Toma from the Minister of Internal Affairs and fought Bell as Frank and the former Cherry Blossom Knights arrived to defend the palace. Bell remained determined to avenge his father, but Yun Feiyang copied Bell’s compressed Sacred Sword technique and left him speechless.

• Yun Feiyang severed the Minister of Internal Affairs's wrist, rescued King Toma, and pinned him down while the ministers seized the traitor.
• Frank led several hundred former Cherry Blossom Knights into the palace to protect King Toma and confronted Bell over his revenge.
• Bell refused to stop fighting despite the veterans’ warning that he misunderstood the events surrounding his father’s death, and the old and new Cherry Blossom Knights clashed.
• Yun Feiyang held Frank back, challenged Bell, and used his swordsmanship to bind and blast him away.
• Bell compressed the Sacred Sword around his blade, but Yun Feiyang instantly copied the technique, leaving Bell and Frank stunned.

Yun Feiyang defeated Bell, then used his Knight True Form and Sacred Shield to stop Bell’s Sword of Judgment from destroying the Royal Palace. After the Cherry Blossom Knights surrendered, Bell tried to kill King Toma, but Frank took the sword meant for him and pleaded with Bell to abandon his hatred.

• Bell and Yun Feiyang fought with their Holy Swords, adapting each other’s techniques as their duel drew the surrounding fighters’ attention.
• Yun Feiyang trapped Bell with Black Tortoise and wounded him, but Bell rose again and unleashed Sword of Judgment across the Royal Palace.
• Yun Feiyang summoned his Knight True Form and used the Sacred Shield to nullify the attack, leaving everyone unharmed and forcing the Cherry Blossom Knights to surrender.
• As King Toma approached, Bell attacked him with the Holy Sword, and Frank stepped in front of the King and was stabbed.
• Frank urged Bell to let go of his grudge and live without carrying hatred.

Yun Feiyang stopped Bell from taking his own life after Bell stabbed Frank, and Frank survived long enough for King Toma to reveal the truth about the Kuro Town massacre and Weber’s sacrifice. Bell learned that his father had willingly accepted blame to protect Fiore, but he still challenged King Toma over letting Weber die disgraced.

• Bell broke down after stabbing Frank, and Yun Feiyang kicked him away before helping the palace physician treat Frank.
• Frank urged Yun Feiyang not to punish Bell, and the physician removed the Holy Sword and stopped Frank’s bleeding.
• Bell tried to kill himself, but King Toma stopped him by offering to explain what had happened twenty years earlier.
• King Toma recounted how the Queen took an arrow meant for him during the Kuro Town riot, prompting him to order a retaliatory attack that killed thousands.
• King Toma revealed that Weber had volunteered to take responsibility for the massacre to preserve the kingdom’s stability and had asked the others to keep the truth secret.
• Bell accepted that Weber had sacrificed himself willingly but accused King Toma of enjoying his safety while Weber remained condemned, and King Toma explained that revealing the truth would have endangered the peace.

Bell exposed Prince William as the mastermind behind the rebellion, and Yun Feiyang saved King Toma from his brother’s attack. William admitted he had plotted to seize the throne, and King Toma recognized him as the mastermind behind the Kuro Town riot twenty years earlier.

• King Toma and Frank convinced Bell that Weber had been a worthy knight, and Bell broke down in grief over what he had done.
• Prince William arrived with Princess Jade and Arcadius, then ordered the City Guard to arrest the Cherry Blossom Knights.
• Bell warned everyone that William was the true mastermind, and William attacked King Toma before Yun Feiyang pulled the king to safety.
• William admitted he intended to kill his brother and seize the throne, while Bell revealed William had manipulated him with the claim that Weber was framed.
• William tried to bribe Yun Feiyang to stand aside, but Yun refused because he had promised to protect King Toma.
• King Toma recognized William as the mastermind behind the Kuro Town riot twenty years earlier.